1. Under what circumstances would you have behaved differently?
Do Now:
Think of a time when you were told to do something you didn’t want to do.
Did you do it?
Why or why not?
Under what circumstances would you have behaved differently?

2. Federal Reconstruction: Constitutional Amendments
13th Amendment
abolished slavery
14th Amendment
citizenship (overturned Dred Scott)
15th Amendment
right to vote, can’t deny based on race

3. Federal Reconstruction: Military Reconstruction Act
divided South into 5 military districts
Governed by a general with federal troops
Government formed by Southerners loyal to the Union
Must include both whites and freedmen
Confed. supporters denied the vote

4. Civil Rights Act of 1866
made black codes illegal by declaring freedmen full citizens with same rights as whites
Johnson vetoed
Congress overruled (2/3 vote of Congress)

5. Radical Reconstruction: Southern States Respond
Constitutions
constitutions rewritten, most advanced in nation, ended imprisonment for debt, started public schools, right to vote regardless of race, ¼ delegates rewriting const. were AA
Governments
Republicans in office, 1/5 AA, ratified 14th and 15th Amendments, 1870 all states rejoined Union
Political Office
1/5 were AA (22 AA in state Congress)

6. Social Norms did not change…
Black codes:
like previous slave codes
laws to limit rights of freedmen
help planters find work by limiting job opportunities for freedmen
Keep freedmen at the bottom of the social order.
Sharecropping:
freedmen rented land, tools, homes, clothes, etc. from plantation owners
payment was made at harvest time
relied on honesty by plantation owners (most freedmen lacked education)

7. Radical Reconstruction: Unwelcome by Southern Democrats
scalawags – White Southerners who voted Republican after the Civil War
carpetbaggers – Northerners who moved South after the war to get money and political power